Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-12
A STORY.

and caves a For,une--The Heiress
Discovered i'll a New Orleans Nurse
Maid.
During the year 1874, and years
prior 10 that, a saloon in Algiers was
owned by IL German named John Lor-
ems, a widower who had one child, a
girl. seven years Of age in 1864. Lor-
ems had met with i'll luck, First he had
lost his wife Fredericka, whose maiden
name was Voegele, and soon after his
little son two years of age. Mrs. Lor-
ems died in 1881, and after that the
care of the children which fell on
Lorens proved extremely irksome.
Business did not prosper with him as
he desired either, and probably he con-
cluded to leave the city. His little girl
he placed in the Protestant Episcopal
Home, on Jackson street, and then
babe the city adieu forever.
The child's name was Elizabeth
Catherine Lorens, and for some time
after her father left the city she con-
tinued TO receive letters from him dat
ed in various parts of the world. At
last letters postmarked in South Africa
were received, but in 1873 these also
ceased and nothing more was heard OF
him here.
The girl, who went by the name of
Elizabeth or Lizzie, grew healthy and
strong and was obedient, tractable and
intelligent. Her life passed unevent-
fully until two years ago, when q lady
called at her home to engage a nurse
maid, and being impressed favorably
with the appearance of Elizabeth deter
mined to engage her services. She
was quite willing, nay anxious to go
with the lady and the arrangements
were speedily contaminated and Eliza
beth Screens became nurse at Mr. w.
Blake's residence, No. 999 st. Charles
avenue, between Constantinople and
Marengo streets.
Elizabeth obtained a good home and
the lady of the house was kind, consid-
crate and by no means n taskmaster.
Elizabeth had plenty of leisure time TO
go out during the day when she had
occasion TO 90 out; but the lady of the
house made 1t a rule, from which she
never deviated, that all her servants
should remain indoors after dark.
Elizabeth was thus kept out OF the
reach of harm, and being naturally OF
a good disposition, she became a mod
est, ~unassuming girl, without care or
trouble. She is now about to enter her
twentieth year, her birthday occurring
on the I'd of November next. She Is a
1900. ~,,ll,r ,,,,1.xinnnI Vnnnn lliU
with brown hair and deep-blue eyes.
Of hes fathers whereabouts Elizabeth
knew nothing, not having heard any
thing of him for nine years. A few
DAVIS q a horrible murCer and sui
eide was committed in a cigar store IN
New York city. John Loren2, the
proprietor of the store, murdered one
of his employees and then committed
suicide. He left a letter addressed to
the coroner, in which ne said that at
one time he had kept the Flreproof
coffee house in New Orleans, and had
left there and gone to the diamond
fields of South Africa. He had been
lucky and had accumulated ~cOnsidera-
bic wealth, and had on deposit IN the
bank If England f2S, 800. or about
$40 900 in American money. This ne
bequcathed TO his daughter Elizabeth.
who was somewhere in the city OF New
Orleans.
The fact was published in the Picay-
une Yesterday morning and one OF the
other servant girls read of it and at
once jumped 10 the conclusion that the
heiress and Elizabeth, her fellow ser
want, were one and the same. A com
paris0n of dates and names con-
iirmed the girls suspicious and
she told Elizabeth what she surmised.
The girl took the startling news quite
philosophically and calmly related the
/ Jets to Mr.. Blake. Further Investi2a-
ton developed the fact that the girl
had been baptized in the st. a
Lutheran church on Burgundy street,
formerly Craps street, in the Ihird
district, and that her fathers name
was John Lorenz. The letters she re-
ceived from him had unfortunately
been mislaid. but search is now being
made for them and they will doubtless
be found.
Last evening a reporter Of the Picay'
unc visited the house of Mr.. Blake ano
The heiress answered the bell. She de
clined II bo interviewed, but referred
all inquisitors to Mr.. Blake, her EN-
ployer. -,
There il no doubt as TO the identity
of the girl and she will have but II
difficulty in proving it. The ONLY IS
ton is y he'her the amount she ; tC
fall heir to is DIRECTLY reported, which
il true. will make her Independent 70,
the remainder If her life time if judic
iously invested. Judeing from th'
girls appearance and the good repor
made of her 10y Ms. Blake, Elizabetl
Lorenz certainly deserves her goo'
fnrIunG.